Then I looked out at what lay nearest. How short lived our few remaining resources would be. unless fresh strength came from somewhere. How still it was. Only the sound of a few feable breaths. It would not take many hours of starvation to quiet them forever. Independence. MO. was the jumping off point for the emigrants to the West. The city. made famous by President Harry Truman in this century. had an economy geared to outfitting and provisioning the pilgrims. Here a family could purchase all that was needed for the westward trip and a good deal that was not needed.
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